Re: Cold Fusion & Supernova 1987A]

[Bob Fickle]

A 100 GeV charged particle (electron OR proton) has a radius of curvature in the galactic field (1 microgauss avgerage) of about 3 billion km (3 light-hours).  No way they're crossing galactic distances anytime soon- probably billions, rather than millions, of years... Neutrinos, sure- including some energetic enough to see with Kamiokande.  But  'way too few to cause the effects you're alleging. Frederick Sparber wrote: About 24 hours after the flash of light  (and gamma rays) from Supernova 1987A  about 150,000 light-years from earth  in the Magellanic Cloud were observed, ~ 1.0 eV rest mass neutrinos from it were picked up by the Japanese Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector.   The enormous electron - proton  (Eo  0.51 MeV & 936 MeV rest mass) cosmic ray burst would follow later according to the relativistic equation:   Gamma =  Ekin/Eo + 1 = 1/[1 - (v^2/c^2)]^1/2  (Ekin can be 100s of GeV)   The velocity  v of the electrons would be ~ 0.999 999 99c and that of the protons ~ 0.999 999c they would  hit the earth after traversing the ~ 150 thousand light-year distance in months-years, causing momentary neutron spallation-transmutation of atoms in the atmosphere and all materials (there were several computer problems generated on the Concorde and strange power outages on the Grid noted in 1988) including those used in Pons and Fleischman's Cold Fusion experiment about March 29th 1989:    http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ton/nuc2.html   As would be expected, follow-up bursts of strange activity in materials and science laboratories  have been going on ever since.   Fred